Volume / Number: S / 1696

• Cairo Egypt Egyptian Museum SR 3796 25/1/55/2 (43) [1346]

Written probably at Byzantium or some other important legal centre in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. Found at Antinoë in 1937. Now preserved in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.

Script is roundish uncial and seems to be an early example of the distinct type of which the Florentine Digests (CLA 3.295) is the most noted representative and which is also found in a number of other legal manuscripts (cf. CLA 12.1723): the bow of A is rounded; R has the characteristic form with the bow descending to the base-line and the final stroke almost horizontal.

☛CLA date change from saec. V, cf. Drinkwater / Salway; S. Ammirati, JJP 40 (2010), p. 86. ☛Formarly Florence, Laurenziana P.S.I. 1346.